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Nicolas Cage - yes, the Hollywood actor - is set to feature in horror multiplayer game Dead by Daylight.

Episode one of The Expanse: A Telltale Series now has a firm release date of 27th July, from its previous summer release window.

Valve's Steam Deck is a very capable handheld, capable of PS4-class visuals in a compact form factor. Packing a 1.6-teraflop GPU, modern quad-core CPU and plenty of memory bandwidth, the Deck can keep pace with a surprising array of current and last-gen software. Modern PC games get more demanding by the day though and 2023 releases in particular have suffered major performance woes - even on powerful machines. So can the Steam Deck still deliver playable performance in this year's most challenging software?

Sony will broadcast its next PlayStation Showcase next Wednesday, 24th May.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has had an incredible debut. Earlier today, Nintendo announced the Breath of the Wild sequel sold over 10m units worldwide in just three days. This makes it the fastest selling Zelda release to date.

Nintendo is shutting down online services for Pac-Man 99 - its online battle royale game - later this year.

Sony has updated its list of PlayStation 5 and PS4 games leaving PS Plus soon.

Humanity is a puzzle game and, at times, quite a taxing one. At times like this, I like to dip into the menus and watch the video walkthrough for the particular level I'm stuck on. This is a lovely feature, but watching these videos is almost always a terrible mistake. That's because, laid bare in such a manner, the sheer amount of stuff you're doing in Humanity to solve a puzzle can quickly seem overwhelming. I have to do all that?! Instant brain freeze.

Today brings the first trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's, the upcoming movie based on the enormously-popular horror game series of the same name.

Five of the Best is a weekly series for supporters. It's a series about highlighting some of the features in games that are often overlooked. It's also a series about you having your say, so don't be shy, use the comments below and join in!

ARC Raiders, the forthcoming shooter from Embark Studios, has had a genre change.

Sony has not appealed the Austrian loot box verdict which ordered it to refund a number of Austrian FIFA players, after a court ruled that FIFA Ultimate Team (FUT) packs constituted a form of gambling.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom players have been busy making some weird and wonderful contraptions to get around Hyrule, defeat enemies, and torture koroks.

Overwatch 2 developer Blizzard has spoken out to reassure fans upset by its decision to ditch plans for a PVE Hero Mode, to say it still had "a lot of great PvE content" still in the pipeline.

Have you ever come across an arcade boxing machine?

If you played Diablo 4 during any of the various playtests Blizzard has held ahead of the game's early June launch, you'll probably have run into another player or two.

Valve has quietly introduced 90-minute game trials to Steam, with the feature making its debut in conjunction with EA's Dead Space remake.

Ubisoft has detailed plans expand its Assassin's Creed team by 40 percent "over the coming years" as it seeks to focus its resources on "big brands and long-lasting Live games".

Sega is mulling an increase in prices for its forthcoming video games.

Blizzard has said it's feeling "really confident" Diablo 4 will enjoy a smooth launch following a series of server stress tests.

Saudi Arabia's controversial Public Investment Fund (PIF) has increased its stake in FIFA publisher EA.

Microsoft has detailed the latest batch of games headed to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC over the remainder of May, including EA's final ever FIFA title.

Pokémon Go is finally giving players a Master Ball - the franchise's legendary item with a 100 percent guarantee of catching any Pokémon.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority has defended its decision to block Microsoft's $68.7bn Activision Blizzard buyout, as part of a grilling by MPs today.

It's easy to be cynical about After Us, and I am indeed quite cynical about After Us. Created by Barcelona-based Piccolo, the studio behind Arise: A Simple Story, it's an ecologically themed platformer about a child goddess rescuing animal souls from ravaged cities full of petrified human beings. As I learned from Piccolo, the overall aim is to restore hope to discussions of environmental catastrophe, without waving away the hard facts. But the game couches all this in vague, "universal" terms, as though it were trying to avoid entangling itself in the very debates it wants to channel.

Shipment from Modern Warfare is one of Call of Duty's most famous maps. So famous, it actually got a revamp for the likes of Vanguard and Modern Warfare 2 (where it was set on a ship).

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom lets you dress Link in a whole wardrobe of costumes and armour - but none so unsettling as his Link's Awakening outfit.

Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom includes a cute little nod to Breath of the Wild's Champion's Ballad DLC.

Microsoft has now sold 2m Xbox Series X/S consoles in the UK.

Quarto is so easy to learn that I was both introduced to it and taught the rules over the course of a single, brisk, Tiktok. It's a two-player board game that plays out on a 4x4 grid. Players take turns putting pieces on the grid. The objective is to get a line of four pieces, horizontally, vertically or diagonally, across the board.